NOAA Reports?

William Grimsley · Post by **William Grimsley** » Thu 06 Jun 2013 2:00 pm

Hi Steve,

How are the NOAA Reports created?

William

Post by **steve** » Thu 06 Jun 2013 2:20 pm

I'm not sure what you mean exactly. Most of the input data comes from dayfile.txt.

William Grimsley · Post by **William Grimsley** » Thu 06 Jun 2013 6:01 pm

steve wrote:I'm not sure what you mean exactly. Most of the input data comes from dayfile.txt.

Aha! That's what I mean! How come the wind speed has got .0 after it when it's in whole numbers? Also, the other thing is that I want to change the headings in the files.

Post by **steve** » Thu 06 Jun 2013 6:31 pm

The format is fixed; it's the format defined by the reports that Weatherlink produces.

William Grimsley · Post by **William Grimsley** » Fri 07 Jun 2013 10:19 am

steve wrote:The format is fixed; it's the format defined by the reports that Weatherlink produces.

But, this is Cumulus not Weatherlink...

Post by **steve** » Fri 07 Jun 2013 10:48 am

The point is that the reports are intended to be compatible with those produced by Weatherlink.

William Grimsley · Post by **William Grimsley** » Fri 07 Jun 2013 2:47 pm

steve wrote:The point is that the reports are intended to be compatible with those produced by Weatherlink.

Ok, why did you take that approach? Plus, why not allow people who use Cumulus to edit these files?

Post by **steve** » Fri 07 Jun 2013 3:01 pm

William Grimsley wrote:Ok, why did you take that approach?

So that any existing software which relied on the format of the report would work with the reports produced by Cumulus

Plus, why not allow people who use Cumulus to edit these files?

There is a section for posting enhancement requests. Requests which are posted there have a greater than zero chance of being implemented one day.

beteljuice · Post by **beteljuice** » Fri 07 Jun 2013 3:16 pm

@Wiliam

From the web "Weather Watcher Reports in NOAA National Climatic Data Center Format"

Just like METAR and TAF, there is an agreed and accepted protocol and layout (originally for telex / teletypewriters).

Yes, time has moved on, but any whistles and bells you add are on your own head until a new 'standard' is accepted.

The 'NOAA report' is a nicety that Steve added to Cumulus' functionality.
You can create whatever kind of report you want from your data - so go do it !

William Grimsley · Post by **William Grimsley** » Sat 08 Jun 2013 7:28 am

beteljuice wrote:You can create whatever kind of report you want from your data - so go do it !

Really?

William Grimsley · Post by **William Grimsley** » Sat 08 Jun 2013 8:15 pm

beteljuice wrote:@Wiliam

From the web "Weather Watcher Reports in NOAA National Climatic Data Center Format"

Just like METAR and TAF, there is an agreed and accepted protocol and layout (originally for telex / teletypewriters).

Ah, ok. I understand, now.

William Grimsley · Post by **William Grimsley** » Mon 10 Jun 2013 4:19 pm

Now, I'm getting weird characters on my reports...

http://www.newton-poppleford-weather.co ... eports.php

Post by **steve** » Mon 10 Jun 2013 4:56 pm

Looks like you've selected the UTF-8 option, but your page is ISO-8859-1

William Grimsley · Post by **William Grimsley** » Mon 10 Jun 2013 5:41 pm

steve wrote:Looks like you've selected the UTF-8 option, but your page is ISO-8859-1

Ah! I've selected that to see if it would do anything to my original problem. But all is fine, now.

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